The director's main task is to find meaning in the text and convey it to the audience. The director's art is to radically reinterpret the classic text to make it relevant to a contemporary audience. Judge between these two different positions by referring to the work of two important theater directors. The director has become a very important part of a theater show. It hasn't always been this way. In the early years of the theater the director was seen primarily as a manager, he was there to organize a show and supervise the development of the show. The director's job was to focus on "managing" a production to keep it going. But the situation soon changed: on May 1, 1874, the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen demonstrated a different directing style, which would go a long way towards changing the role of the director forever. The Duke, on that date, did not become the significant figure that a director is today. His ideas contributed to developing the role of the director which would soon become the fundamental factor for the success of a show. The Duke's initiative allowed him to become more involved in the piece. Cole and Chinoy expressed the Duke's impact on a performance in their book Director's on Directing. “He was the artistic creator of each production. He designed the sets and costumes, but he went further and designed every movement and every position on the stage. “The director's development was a gradual process, but every new director in the nineteenth and twentieth century contributed to the emergence of the director as the artistic creator of any show. The director's role is to convey the meaning of the text and to convey what meaning it has for the audience? Or is it the art of......middle of paper......ays. The director can choose what meaning he wants to convey to the audience, what meaning the scenography will have for the show, what feelings the characters convey to the audience. An example of this is in Stanislavski's version of The Cherry Orchard, when he portrayed Lopakhin's character as the most psychologically complex, which Chekhov questions. This is significant because the author originally created the meaning of the text and Stanislavski's directing techniques can alter the meaning of the entire piece. But if a director tries to show the values ​​contained in the script, he has less choice in how it will be executed and the director's choices are reduced and there is a greater margin for error if the script is interpreted incorrectly. As a result, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard could only be understood and interpreted perfectly by Chekhov himself.